Lone Survivor In IAF Helicopter Crash Group Captain Varun Singh Passes Away
Mumbai: Group Captain Varun Singh, the lone survivor in the Indian Air Force helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu, has passed away, IAF said.
Singh was undergoing treatment at the Bengaluru Command Hospital following the tragic air disaster on December 8, which claimed the lives of India’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika, and other armed forces personnel on board.
“IAF is deeply saddened to inform the passing away of braveheart Group Captain Varun Singh, who succumbed this morning to the injuries sustained in the helicopter accident on 08 Dec 21. IAF offers sincere condolences and stands firmly with the bereaved family”, the Indian Air Force said in a statement.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoled the demise of Captain Singh, saying, “Group Captain Varun Singh served the nation with pride, valour and utmost professionalism. I am extremely anguished by his passing away. His rich service to the nation will never be forgotten. Condolences to his family and friends. Om Shanti.”
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Singh, a Shaurya Chakra awardee, was travelling with General Rawat as his liaison officer for a visit to the Wellington-based Defence Services Staff College (DSSC), where the CDS was to deliver a lecture.
After the helicopter crash, he was brought to the Military Hospital in Wellington but was later shifted to Bengaluru’s Air Force Command Hospital.
The Indian Air Force, for its part, has constituted a tri-service Court of Inquiry (CoI) headed by Air Marshal Manvendra Singh to probe the Mi-17V5 helicopter crash.
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